She said she can’t breathe
She said she can’t breathe no more pee on the toilet she’ll leave the seat up to mark the day that will never end she’ll leave his socks on the floor his bed unmade his […]
Summer 2020
Photo Essay
Good Mother – Bad Mother Description: This photograph captures the split between Good Mother and Bad Mother, or in the language of SAO/TEND (Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development) GEM (Good Enough Mother) and PO (Predator Other). […]
Division 56 Convention Program
Division 56 programming for the 2020 APA Virtual Convention Invited Panel Discussions: Transcending Divisiveness: Depolarizing Practices from Around the Globe A live action role modeling of how to have courageous conversations around having different perspectives, […]
Self-Care for You and Yours: CONNECT
We are never alone… but we must pay greater attention to the people we love… and even those around us who don’t look like us, pray like us, or speak like us… they too deserve […]
Presidential Voice – Summer 2020
Carolyn Allard, Ph.D. To be sure, 2020 will go down in history (and it is barely halfway through). My hope is that what will earn its place in the history books will be the humanity […]
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Grieving
The world is experiencing a communal sense of grief. Individuals across the globe have lost family members, friends, and loved ones to the novel coronavirus. Moreover, sanitary regulations and health practices enforced by different organizational […]
Editor’s Note – Summer 2020
Jonathan Cleveland, Ph.D. Greetings, Welcome to the summer issue of Trauma Psychology News. Clinicians specializing in trauma treatment find themselves in formidably turbulent times. With all that our readers are doing to help, the editorial […]
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: An Intersubjective, Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self, Attachment, Trauma, and Reality
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT I am excited to tell you that I have written a new book about trauma: Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: An Intersubjective, Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self, Attachment, Trauma, and Reality, […]
Mental Health Challenges of a Global Pandemic: The Case of COVID-19
Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Jasmin Guevarra, and Erin Antona Introduction Towards the end of 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) began in China and quickly spread to other countries within months. COVID-19 is an infectious virus […]